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greater than budgeted by earlier legislation. The 1963 Act aimed to address this by increasing the borrowing powers of the
Electricity Council and boards in England and Wales, for the Scottish electricity boards, and for the Gas Council and its boards. It raised the amounts to a limit likely to be reached in about three years which would provide an opportunity for Parliament to review the progress of each industry at approximately three-year intervals.
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bodies; to provide in certain cases for compensating members of those bodies for loss of office; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid’.
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which set a new budget of £900 million which could be increased to £1,200 million. The 1963 Act was also amended by the
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